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Comment there are multiple solutions (Score 1) 525

- work only on contract based no longer then 12-18 months per company. You won't be included in such rankings ... but you might get hired-and-fired faster then usual staff (but better paid) - make yourself the only person with specific know-how about certain technical aspects (But to serve a niche can make you unemployed easy, for example if the niche is gone). If there are not so many people that have comparable knowledge it is harder to rank you. Specialists always get better ranking then generalists.

Comment the numbers mix license with support cost (Score 1) 145

by Emil_and_the_Detecti (#37316272) Attached to: UK Government Breaks Open Source Promises
The numbers contain for example HAYS IT. I guess its refereing to http://www.hays.co.uk/ which do not sell any license only services. So they have hired some consultants from that company for doing whatever their job was. But they spend no money on licenses. I guess they still would need those people no matter if its Open Source Software or not.
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Smartphones For Text SSH Use Re-Revisited 359

Posted by CmdrTaco from the serious-business dept.
Kainaw writes "This was asked in 2005 and 2008. I think it should be revisited yet again... With iPhone, Android, and Windows smartphones running around, which (if any) of them are well-suited to Unix/Linux server administration on the run? SSH is a must. A good screen resolution. A physical keyboard won't block the screen with a virtual keyboard. Many physical keyboards omit the numeric keys now, making the typing of numbers rather difficult. Nearly every smartphone has WiFi capability now. Some will do an X display through SSH tunnelling. So, pushing through all the bells and whistles that have nothing to do with effective server administration, what is left?"
Communications

Why Creators Should Never Read Their Forums 221

Posted by Soulskill from the lalala-i-can't-hear-you dept.
spidweb writes "One full-time Indie developer writes about why he never goes to online forums discussing his work and why he advises other creators to do the same. It's possible to learn valuable things, but the time and the stress just don't justify the effort. From the article, 'Forums contain a cacophony of people telling you to do diametrically opposite things, very loudly, often for bad reasons. There will be plenty of good ideas, but picking them out from the bad ones is unreliable and a lot of work. If you try to make too many people happy at once, you will drive yourself mad. You have to be very, very careful who you let into your head.'"

What is OpenLaszlo, and What is it Good For? 196

Posted by ScuttleMonkey from the things-to-play-with dept.
SimHacker writes to share an article he wrote recently that tries to answer the question; What is OpenLaszlo, and What is it Good For? From the article: "OpenLaszlo is an open source platform for developing user friendly web based applications, which work identically across all popular browsers and platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, IE, Firefox, Safari, etc). It's ideal for presenting and editing raw XML data generated by PHP and other web services."

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